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Man's Name Wins Charge DismissalFORT WORTH, Tex. (UPD-County Judge J. C, Duvall called Nora Perkins before the bench to answer charges of carrying a pistol.A tall, muscular Negro man strode forward.' You must have misunderstood me.” Duvall said. ”1 called for Nora Perkins.”‘Yes, sir. judge, that's me, that's my name.”How did you get a name like I that? Were your folks expecting i a girl when you were bom?”;! No, sir,” Perkins replied. ; “They named me for the man 1 who built that big boat. You know s —Nora’s ark.”I The judge dismissed the case.
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Yuma, Arizona, US

Thu, Jan 14, 1960

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